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GENOA CNFERENCE SE BACK.
ALLIES AT VARIANCE.
POSTININEMENT NOW ALMOST CERTAIN.
LONDON, Januray 31.
The difficulties of holding the Genos Conference are
cmphasised by the French Press to-day. It is declared
that negotiations on the subject of the programme have- developed such differences among the Allies that post- ponement is likely, at least till after Baster.
The French view
is that problems of immediate interest between the All es should be settled before the immense and remote question of European reconstrue. fin is undertaken The Peuvre goes so far as to declare that British and French conversations have become diplomatic conlict. The paper accuses Mr. Lloyd George hy his speech of January 21 of precipitating a conflict which it prophesies will become hitter.
FRENOB TRADE LESI
LAST YEAR'S FIGURES.
LONDON, January, H.
The official returns for French trade døring 1921 are as follows: Imports, 23,548 million francs, compared with 49,901 million franes in 1920, Exports 21,553 trillion francs compared with 26,891 million (ranes `in 1920. Imports, 37,973,000 tons, compared with. 50,631 tons in 1920. Exputs, 16,901 000 tons, compared with 12,855,100 tone in 1920.
THIS YEAR'S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.
NORWEGIAN WOMEN'S PROPOSAL.
CHRISTIANIA, January 31. The National Council of Norwegian Women bas submitted a proposal which has been endorsed by the President of the Storting that the Nobel peace prize for 1922 should be given to the International Council
Women.
RATHENAU FOREIGN MINISTER
BERLIN, January 31.
Dr Rathenau has been appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. Hestereeds the Caucellor, Dr. Wirth, who has hitherto been acting a foreign minister.
CAIRO DEATH PLOT
TWENTY ONE ARRESTS.
CATRO Jaouary 31.
Op to the present twenty one arrests have been made in connection with the conspiracy to kill Sarwat Pisha.
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How primitive man enjoyed himself and what he did in the ages before history began is told very simply and clearly by Marjorie and C. II. B. Queuel in "Everyday Life in the Stone Age" (just published, Batsford, 54. net). It is a work meant primarily for boys and girls, but it is so good of its kind that it will be enjoyed by most of their elders.
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December 31, 1920, Temperature 65
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INDIEN U VREST REMEDY.
FORMER HONGKONG GOVERNOR'S PLAN,
EXTENSION OF SELF-GOVERNMENT.
LONDON, January 31.
a letter to the Times, expresses the opinion that ex
Sir Frederick Lugard, former Hongkong Governor,
tension of self-government is the best remedy for uprest in India. He suggests that the boundaries of the well- ordered and loyal native states should be extender as largely as possible and that the native dynasties should be reinstated where possible. This would not involve reversal of policy and the machinery of the Government of India Act would continue to operate, though the area to which it would be applicable would gradually be curtailed, while the Council of Princes might form the basis of a federation similar to that in Malaya.
MEETING DISPERSED.
CALCUTTA, January 31.
The police dispersed a non-cooperation meeting at which the speakers included Bengalee and Punjabre la lies. They arrested 108 m.
TRADE WITH THE FAR EAST.
AUSTRALIA'S NEW CHANNELS.
Luston, January 31.
Sir Joseph Cook, Australia's new London High Commissioner, interviewed by a Router re resentative. expressed a wish to cultivate cordial relations between Australia and the other Dominions, also with the For East regarding which he emphasised that efforts were being made in Australia to develop new channels of trade. One trade commissioner had been in the East for two years and another had just besa appointed. Australia was looking to the East for the disposal of ma many ofis manufactures, apart from the greater con sumption of raw products which was gradually but surely taking place. He described Australin as a wes- tern nation with an castern trade outlook.
SHANTUNG SETTLEMENT.
COMPLETING THE DETAILS.
WASHINGTON, January 31. The basis of the Shantung settlement is understood to have been a plan supported by President Harding for providing China with a pact for the Tsingtao-Tsiaanfa Ra Iway in treasury notes and Japanese experts to be retained in operating the personnel during the period of payment.
It is announced that the delegates will meet again to morrow to work out the remaining details. Mc Wellington Koo stated that a final and defuite settle- ment would be announced b fore to-morrow evening.
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FEAST AND DEATH.
He had no easy ex'stence, Oue of YOUNG MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF his foes must have been tho sabre-
WHEN HANDED THE BILL. toothed tiger, a fierce and formidable creature whose bones have been found in Kent's Cavern and elsewhere in "I have had no meal for 9 days this country. How such antagonists and I decided to die after a good were combated by our remote pro-dinner," explained in a letter a young genitors is told.
mao, Pierro Borhoa who
sbot
eaten
"Tu dig a pit would not have been himself dead in F Paris Te- beyond the wit of prehistoric man, staurant after bu bud and stakes for it could have been and drunk there all day without sharpened and the points hardened paying. He was apparently and old by re. Such a pit would have been client of the house and on this account the beginning of the long battle be was not given a bill earlier in the day. Nothing is more wonderful than the tween brain and mera bulk, This At length, when the abutters were wide and various knowledge of prehis-would have been one way in which pat up, he was handed his account. teric man which modern archaeology prehistoric woan obtained the meat "My bill" he said. "Here is my has given in the last few years. Im that he needed for his fond. He was, bill," and he drew out an automatic plement made by him have been found of course, as carnivorous as his foo the pistol and shot bimself, dating back 27,000 years, and perhaps tiger," much more, in certain gravels on the Soum". In those far-off days-
Still later, some 22,000 years ago. rrehistoric man had dovoloped so
The season's herring fishing at The climate was warm, as remains art, the recent discovery of which has Lowestoft has been a disastrous are found of Elephas antiquus, a startled the world in the wond rful failure. Nearly all the boats have southern type of elephant which coloured drawings of the Altamira made a lose and the crews will have preceded the mammoth. England cave in Spain. Hera were found: nothing. was connected to Europe by a **Drawings and paintings of bulls, watershed of dry land where the bison, deer horses, and many other The transfer books of Messrs. Straits of Dover now are. There animals, some life-size. There is no Wireman Ltd., will be closed from WAB 耳款 isthmus
the light in the cave and the figures February 10 to 14, both days: in- Mediterranean at Gibraltar and occur over all the walls. They can-clusive, during which period no trans- another south of Sicily. This is the nat be seen now without a light, andfors of shares can be registered. explanation of the hippopotamus in a lamp mu t have been used when"" England; he did not need to swim; they were painted. Many of the he walked her,"
animals aro deawn with strowa stuck-
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The first-known Englishman was in their bedies: un some the bosct is (leg. Fahrenheit) below the mean the Pitdown.man,so called from a shown in red: Alexa
apanal temperature of Europe, to part of a skuil found at Piltdown, in The appearance of such anuals na have all the rigour of the glacial the Sussex weald, of whom a most the Aratio hra sa museos in this periods back again, or that a rise of unflattering portrait is given-abádge ploture gallery shows that the 4 to 5 degrees would cause all the roconstructed from the skull. The climate about 20 000 B.C. must have Swiss glaciers to die ppear." braid capacity is about equal to the boon duch colder then it is today. fuck an alteration might be con. smaller humus. Brain it to day. The But the can be easily explained. akull is extraordinarily obiek. The Scientists) Stall us that 16 only known of the Prosesion of the that mysterious thing Pilldown man could, and probably wants a fall of about ddeg, centigrade Ejulnaris,
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